EPA retired. Environmental Systems Analyst. Cornell. Union Shop Steward. Opinions are my own. Trolls are tasty. Zionist. I'm not Hotu

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I love twitter. It's a safe quiet space where I can forget my ivy league environmental systems degree, 30 years EPA experience, time on the national hydrofracking workgroup and be lectured to by someone who just watched a YouTube video.
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Trump said he demanded unconditional surrender, we just didn’t know he meant America’s.
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Aged like milk in the Strait of Hormuz sun.
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Trump, are you out of your fucking mind? You are asking the Jewish state to gamble its entire existence on Ahmed al-Sharaa—and through him, Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood—just so you can brag about a cheap diplomatic win before an American mid-term election? Let this be entirely clear: This is the first, and it is the absolute last time, that Israel fights alongside any other country. The IDF did your dirty work in Operation Epic Fury , we stood on the frontline against Tehran, and the second it became politically convenient for you, you fucking stabbed us in the back. We aren't pulling out of southern Lebanon, we aren't stopping our strikes on Beirut, and we are never again outsourcing our survival to Washington's short-term delusions. From here on out, Israel stands completely alone—and we will enforce our security by our own steel.
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Lebanon did not want to be represented at the negotiating table by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israel did not want to be represented by the United States. They are both sovereign states, and neither is a party to this agreement that sells Lebanon back to the IRGC.
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David 🦁📟 🇮🇱 retweeted
46 Americans that your buddies killed on Oct 7 also can't watch Seinfeld anymore.
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Replying to @grahamformaine
The whole point of Israel, Graham, is to make it so that guys wearing Totenkopfs can’t just throw Jews in jail for arbitrary reasons
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The synagogue stepped in last minute because the previous venue - a hotel - pulled out because of the threats surrounding it, drummed up by politicians. Antisemitism isn’t because of Israel - Israel exists because of antisemitism. The hate towards British Jews spiked on October 7 when Israelis were still being killed and kidnapped. Once again, Emily, you are showing why you don’t know enough to get involved in these debates.
I very rarely get involved in these debates anymore they just do my head in but @nicolelampert is just so seriously wrong here. Whether or not this event is selling property within the green line or beyond it - the choice to turn a synagogue - on a day where children will be attending cheder - into a real estate auction for Israel in the middle of the current political climate is a) unbelievably irresponsible and dangerous and b) insensitive. You are making it more and more difficult for people to understand the complexities around Jewish people, israel and the links between the two at a time when many Jewish communities are rightly concerned about both antisemtism and people conflating Jews with the policies of the Israeli government. You cannot claim that every protest is antisemitic if you are not willing to engage in even an iota of self reflection or criticism.
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David 🦁📟 🇮🇱 retweeted
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the prevailing order hasn't exactly been great for Israel. Why shouldn't European imperial borderlines be redrawn in some places in recognition of ethnic realities on the ground? Why does Somaliland have to pretend to be Somalia, when in every meaningful way on the ground it isn't and never really was? Why do we all have to pretend there are no Kurds in the world, or that they don't deserve a place of their own under the sun where they aren't subject to the vicissitudes of, variously, Arab or Persian nationalism? Why should Israel be keen on backing an Arab-run political order when most of the Arab world still struggles to acknowledge Jews have those very same rights, the ones they so casually deny to Somalilanders and Kurds? Those aren't even rhetorical questions. I'm honestly wondering why Arabs think Israeli Jews should owe any allegiance to a regional order that hasn't stopped attacking them, in one ideological clothing or another, for six generations... Somalilanders are kinda amazing. Read their story. And Kurds are a real and distinct and oft-abused people. Read their story too. And neither people's history permits us to pretend they will be safe as permanent minorities.
Israel's recognition of Somaliland, like its support for Kurdish movements in Iraq and elsewhere, puts up alarm signals in all capitals in the region, showing it as a unilateralist, irresponsible actor which will advocate secessionism.
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David 🦁📟 🇮🇱 retweeted
Spotted in Edgware yesterday: Yasmin Elsouda, coordinator of the British branch of the PFLP-linked Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). In this footage, she led chants, including “Hurriyeh hurriyeh, Falasteen Arabiya” (“Liberation, liberation; Palestine is Arab”). We guess they didn’t get the memo about “Palestine”: “It doesn’t exist.”
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Pro tip: When you're covering for Islamic Jihad, do as Ryan does. Put lots and lots of shit in the mouth of the people you hate. What are they gonna do? If they try to dispute it, they only drive traffic to your lies. But in this particular case, he's arguing with PIJ, not with me. According to the terror group, he wasn't "working for Palestine Today," as Ryan puts it. He was a نائب فصيل, a deputy platoon (or sometimes squad) commander, and a "mujahid," which I don't think needs translating. It's not just "shahid," which could be an honorific. So it sure looks like Israel and Islamic Jihad both think he was a full-fledged member of PIJ's Khan Younis Brigade, and only Ryan disagrees. Who you believe is up to you.
It’s very important to understand what @havivrettiggur is trying to do here by retconning a claim that Israel didn’t deliberately target journalists in Gaza. In the early morning hours of April 8, 2025, Israeli war planes fired a missile into a tent in the courtyard of Nasser medical complex and killed 3 journalists and wounded at least seven others. The journalists worked for NBC, RT, Palestine Today, and also did freelance work. Now he’s using that strike to claim they didn’t target journalists. The Palestine Today News Agency is linked to PIJ, a resistance group that the U.S. and Israel label as terrorists. That’s how he’s making this claim. The argument being made by Rettig Gur is that it is somehow lawful and moral to strike a tent filled with sleeping journalists, wounding 7 and killing 3, if some of them are connected to Palestine Today. That is a shockingly depraved and barbaric claim to make, even if he writes it in fluent sentences. Of course, we would never say it is appropriate to target a BBC journalist just because they are linked to the UK govt, which is facilitating a genocide. Journalists are non-combatants (and journalists sleeping in a tent outside a hospital, in an area designated for journalists, are obviously non-combatants). The targeted reporters were described at the time as working for Palestine Today, so this claim being pushed a year later is obviously done with extreme malice, acting as if they have discovered some new piece of information that was hidden. We get it: Haviv does not like Palestine Today and believes that because of its editorial line and its link to PIJ, all its journalists, and anybody sleeping near them, are fair game. Nobody who does not have a genocidal attitude toward all Palestinians can hold that view. Journalists and medics cannot be targets if you have any claim to morality — let alone a claim to “most moral” — no matter how much you hate the hospital director or the news agency where they work.
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David 🦁📟 🇮🇱 retweeted
Well done. "But Ben Gvir" definitely washes away the murderous, eternal muqawama. Good on you for being so clever. This is it. This is the campaign in a nutshell. When you point to the nature of Israel's enemies as a possible explanation for some significant part of Israeli behavior, the bigots always, always acknowledge the point. They know. "But Ben Gvir." As though decades upon decades of genocidal rhetoric, genocidal intentions and genocidal action against Israeli Jews might not have played some slight role in forging Israel's Ben Gvirs. As though Ben Gvir himself in his worst, most racist moments ever said or did anything half as evil as the routine rhetoric and behavior of the ayatollahs, of Hamas and Hezbollah, of heroes lionized among so many Western elites. Alas, none of this matters. With the likes of Zaid, we're speaking into a vacuum. They don't want to understand. They're not here to teach or learn or solve anything. It's not about justice or peace or even cold strategy. There isn't even an analysis here. It's just bigotry, the mindlessness of the self-satisfied bully. But, you know, Ben Gvir. Case closed.
Replying to @ZaidJilani
This would go real hard if your security minister was not an actual Klansman. Well to be fair they’re probably in better shape than he is. x.com/havivrettiggur/status/…
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David 🦁📟 🇮🇱 retweeted
📢 “Don’t vote for a Jew” 📢 “Jews are the enemy of Muslims” Deep-seated antisemitism is rooted in Muslim communities in the UK. It is now dressed up as “anti-Zionism," and it has been purposely ignored for far too long.
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سمحت الأونروا لحماس بتحويل مدارسها إلى أدوات للحرب. ويُظهر الفيديو، الذي صوّره إرهابيو حماس أنفسهم، كيف استخدمت الحركة مدرسة ابتدائية تابعة للأونروا للأطفال في بيت حانون، شمال قطاع غزة، لإخفاء أسلحة مرتبطة بمسار تحت الأرض. ويمكن التعرّف على أنها مدرسة تابعة للأونروا من خلال الحواجز الزرقاء على النوافذ، وهو لون تستخدمه الوكالة الأممية بشكل مميز. ومن مدارسها وعياداتها ومقراتها الرئيسية إلى مراكز الإيواء التابعة لها خلال الحرب، فإن مستوى تغلغل حماس في البنية التعليمية والطبية للأونروا يشير إلى حقيقة مقلقة للغاية: فالوكالة مخترقة على نحو عميق وشامل، وتعمل داخلها شبكات واسعة لحماس على مختلف المستويات والمراتب. ولا يمكن بأي حال من الأحوال أن تكون الوكالة الأممية قد جهلت مدى تحويل منظومتها إلى أداة للإرهاب من قبل حماس. إن مسيرة استعادة غزة وإعادة إعمارها وإنعاشها وإصلاحها وإعادة بنائها يجب أن تشمل إنهاء عمليات الأونروا داخل القطاع الساحلي. ويجب ألا يكون هناك مرة أخرى أي مجال لوجود منظومة دائمة تحتكر المساعدات، وتتصرف كأنها مافيا إنسانية، وتعجز عن منع الإرهابيين العنيفين والجهاديين من التغلغل في مدارسها وفصولها الدراسية ومنظومتها. لقد حان الوقت لإنهاء وجود الأونروا في غزة نهائياً، وإفساح المجال أمام بنية تعليمية جديدة تركز على تعزيز الواقعية والاعتدال وبناء الأمة، والعلوم والتكنولوجيا، ودمج غزة في محيطها الإقليمي. — @afalkhatib 20/11/25
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For those who haven't been following -- and nobody's been following because nobody cares, least of all the journalists' NGOs -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been steadily releasing death notifications for one "journalist" after another, listing them invariably as fighters and commanders in the organizations' ranks. It's dozens now. Maybe more. But the "Israel targets journalists" meme is forever. The facts will never penetrate the thick fog of ideological confirmation bias that has overtaken the NGO and activism world and its journalistic arms in the mainstream media. Literally no one cares about whether journalists were actually hunted down by Israel, as it was depicted by @pressfreedom and others, or whether Hamas used fake "journalist" claims to protect combatant commanders, counting on a global NGO and media ecosystem it knew was looking to confirm its biases. No one will examine these falsehoods or report on them in a visible way because no one cares about the wellbeing of the real journalists, who are desperately endangered when combatant commanders are labeled "journalists" -- and even the world's major journalist advocacy groups decide to play along.
🧵FAKE Gaza Journalist Alert: Helmi Al-Faqawi is listed by @pressfreedom as a journalist killed by the IDF at a "reporter's tent" at Nasser Hospital. But PIJ confirmed he was a commander—he used the hospital as a base. The 14th fake journalist outed in the last few weeks. 1/
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Nasty nasty racist woman.
Some “Palestine Action” vandals come from hateful families. Today, Leona Kamio was sentenced to six years at Woolwich Crown Court. Here, her mother laments "Zionist horrors". She even resorts to “Zionist tentacles” in her attack on the justice system. Nazi-grade hate speech.
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Our Mayor, quoting a Qatar propaganda sheet, making false claims about an event. I think this is his third post on it.
I condemn any attempt to sell property in the settlements in the West Bank, be that in London or anywhere else in the world. aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/12…
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Shalom Mahmoud, didn't you use to work for UNRWA? They just fired 70 terrorists in Gaza, so when you get deported, at least you know there's a job waiting for you.
New York has been my home for the last 3.5 years and I've been lucky to witness all the great things happening in the city. Above all, I'm grateful for its people, their warmth, love, and solidarity. Thank you to the 33 NY lawmakers who sent a joint letter to DHS demanding an immediate end to the politically-motivated removal proceedings against me, and to @SenatorBrisport for leading this effort. nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-…
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The duality of Shaiel
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IDENTIFIED Maud Dromgoole, a playwright and theatre producer, served as a juror in the high-profile criminal damage trial involving activists from the now proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action. Here, she spoke in their defence outside Woolwich Crown Court before sentencing yesterday. We believe this conduct is illegal and constitutes contempt of court.
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David 🦁📟 🇮🇱 retweeted
Honestly this is mad. There is going to be a property sale for Israeli homes. People will want to go because they no longer feel safe in the UK. The sale is taking place less than a mile from Golders Green where Jews have been targeted for stabbings and fires. That is why they don’t feel safe. A rumour went around that this would include land on disputed territory. This has been denied. Only property in 1967 lines (regarded internationally as ‘Israel proper’) will be for sale. Yet our own Foreign Secretary, our own mayor and, of course, that twat Zack Polanski have fanned this rumour. It feels to me that they deliberately want to incite hate.
This is our own mayor inciting hatred.
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David 🦁📟 🇮🇱 retweeted
I salute you @JerrySeinfeld for not bowing to the pro Palestine/Jew hating mob. Am Yisrael Chai achi 👏🏻🤘🏻🇮🇱
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